net-p2p/shx 0.2.4_2 DragonFly

Text based Hotline Communications client for Unix

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System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv1
Categories: net-p2p
Package size: 107.7 KiB, 254.9 KiB installed

Description

This is a text based version of the popular hotline client for Macintosh. Hotline is a chat/ftp/news protocol. It's setup almost like an IRC client, but with the ability to do commands such as cd into a directory with /cd and more file transfer oriented functions.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install shx

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/net-p2p/shx && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

devel/readline
security/openssl

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

This port is deprecated; you may wish to reconsider installing it:

Obsolete protocol that has been superseded by many others.

It is scheduled to be removed on or after 2025-04-30.